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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Interesting how the announcement contains neither mention nor screenshot of the new AI chatbot that appears to be in it...

I thought that was going to be an integral part of the sidebar. Are they keeping it turned off by default?

[–] mke@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The AI assistant stuff is currently an opt-in experiment.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As is the sidebar, thus why I was curious about how joined the features are.

I would love it if Mozilla cast the AI trend aside and left the chatbot junk to extensions, like we already have. Even for an AI evangelist, the landscape has become dotted with chatbots that are incompatible with each other but link back to the same APIs.

[–] mke@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be clearer, at least for now, they're literally separate checkboxes. I have the sidebar on, AI off.

I would love it if Mozilla cast the AI trend aside

I feel you... :^(

[–] heftig@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's another feature that intersects with the sidebar work but has to be enabled separately.